The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury.
Quantitative research about self-harm largely deals with self-poisoning, despite the high incidence of self-injury. ⋯ Hospital services offer less to people who have cut themselves, although they are far more likely to repeat, than to those who have self-poisoned. Attendance at hospital should result in psychosocial assessment of needs regardless of method of self-harm.
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In 1999 I estimated the expected number of UK prison suicides, taking into account that opioid users' deaths from suicide were 10 times the number expected for their age and gender. Changes have since taken place in Scottish prisons. ⋯ Scotland has redressed an excess of male suicides, especially by its youngest prisoners.